At last weeks Mixergy event, the closing speaker panel was with BlueSEO (just Google Los Angeles SEO and they come up number one). Here are the notes I took from that talk. I’m sure you will find valuable information that you can apply right now. Enjoy!
- Spend time focusing on the key words that your customer is using to find you.
- Check out this tool: SEOBook.com –> tools –> keyword search
- Read your service or product inquiry emails to discover the language your potential clients/users use.
- Focus on optimizing for no more than 5 to 10 keywords.
- Remember that the title tag is most important and you don’t need to have the company name in each title tag, but do put your keywords there.
- Limit the title tag to 65 characters and use a different one for each page.
- Call your customers and find out what keywords they would use when searching for your product or service.
- Put your keywords in the URL.
- Use – instead of _, since Google treats -’s as a space.
- Break your brand into two words if possible and sign up at Amazon.com using the first word of your brand as the first name and the second word of your brand as the last name. Then post reviews on books that contain your keywords.
- Buy domains related to your brand to make sure you have maximum control of your online image.
- Make sure you name your images as keyword phrases (using – for space) and add an alt tag.
- Don’t use a directory called images. Instead use a directory name that contains a keyword.
- Minimize duplicate content by using “no index” and “no follow” tags where duplicate wording is necessary.
- Pay attention to patents that Google releases (this tip came from Michael Dorausch)
- Optimize your web site’s load time. It is likely this metric will factor into your search engine rankings.
- Favor sub directories over sub domains as sub domains will dilute your “link juice”.
- Buy an established web site. Pre year 2001 is ideal.
- Use PPC early to help supplement organic traffic. Ditch the PPC campaign when your organic traffic is greater than the PPC traffic.
- Meta keywords are not needed, but use the meta description for your elevator pitch.
What are your top SEO tips?
Your notes are so much better than mine!
@Andrew Maybe that is because you were actually hosting the event and asking the questions! I really appreciate the questions you asked. They resulted in some great tips.
I think Elmer should be nominated note taker at all future Mixery events. Great job organizing all of these into a readable list that’s easy to digest. I thought Blue SEO shared some good tips during their presentation.
Great notes, and all the stuff I missed too!
By the way, I clicked your “about” link and it appear to open your website and is completely blank: http://www.ElmerThomas.com/
Nothing groundbreaking here, but that’s not a bad thing. This is actually a pretty good summary list of mostly best practices. None of them are “secrets” though.
There are, in fact, a few interesting suggestions in that list… good points, thanks.
These are excellent tips, some I’d never heard of and definitely sharing this with my readers
Maria Reyes-McDavis
Nice tips and some good ones there that I didn’t think about before. I really like the Amazon tip, I’ll have to try that out sometime.
Good list, I got some decent tips out of it, especially #9 about Amazon. I worked for an seo firm and never thought to do that.